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Melinda Rabb

Associate Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 332
Phone: (401) 863-3750

Courses '07-'08
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0600A - S01: Literature and Print Culture
 ENGL 1510A - S01: Jane Austen and Her Predecessors
  Sem II:
 ENGL 1310A - S01: "Firing the Canon": Early Modern Women Writers
 ENGL 1560U - S01: Radicals and Conservatives: the later 18th Century

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Degrees
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
M.A. University of Chicago, 1971
B.A. Radcliffe College, 1969, magna cum laude

Research Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, satire, women's writing.

Professional Accomplishments
Rabb served as assistant professor of Humanities at MIT before coming to Brown in 1981.   In addition to publishing numerous chapters in collections and journal articles on eighteenth-century British fiction and poetry, she has edited Lucius: The First Christian King of England for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, ed. Douglas Canfield (2000) and a special issue of Modern Language Studies titled Making and Rethinking the Canon: The Eighteenth Century XCIII: 1 (1988).   She is currently completing a book titled The Secret History of Satire, 1650-1740.

Melinda Rabb